Sr. Firmware Engineer
CurrentTeam with cross-functional NPD, Sustaining, and Manufacturing groups to develop, build, deploy, and maintain production volume creation of physical & mobile credentials, as well as credential reader devices integrated within packaged locks and access controls systems. • Maintain and develop reader device firmware assets based on NXP and Infineon microcontrollers interacting with Secure Access Module (SAM), RF/NFC interface, and connectivity to wireless and wired (Ethernet, OSDP) access control systems. • Collaborate with NPD and Manufacturing leads to maintain and extend production equipment firmware on Microchip PIC24 platform to support customer order production of legacy and leading smart technology RFID credentials based on ISO/IEC 7816 standard, including NXP MIFARE DESFire. Develop and test support for creation of standard Physical Access Control System type and Customer Specification type credentials. Design and verify equipment firmware development to support scalable factory ordering processes while adhering to data security practices. Write functional FW requirements (FRDs) against product and system requirements, manage and track FW development work items within DevOps collaboration suite. • Work with product sustaining teams to understand, reproduce, and failure-analysis/root-cause issues reported by customers at device deployed facilities. Document and implement bug fix mitigation to resolve anomalies for deployment through test and release processes. • Partner with colleagues and leadership in evaluating candidate third-party vendor solutions to aid in continual development and process improvements.